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‘Sometimes he would see the Bunsen burners on, the shooting blue flame and jet white heat.’

1.1in singularA state of intense passion or activity.

‘she had written the letter in a white heat of indignation’

‘The white heat of Club Championship football will be on display once again on Sunday next at 4.30 in Breaffy when these great rivals of West Mayo, Ballintubber and Breaffy meet in a vital Championship match.’

‘But Hadrill, who took over the ABI in May, is no stranger to the white heat of politics.’

‘His belief in his polemical fable, Keneally tells me from his home in Sydney, stems from the fact it was urgently written - ‘in the white heat of anger’ - from the heart.’

‘I expect Kearins to put out an experienced side as experience will be vital in the white heat of Connacht Senior Championship football.’

‘Much of the book is relentlessly polemical and was obviously written in a white heat in the aftermath of the revelations.’

‘Their league form has been inconsistent (currently lying in mid table) yet in the white heat of the championship they have produced some of their best moments.’

‘I'm not sure that fiction should be written at white heat, but I had to do it; even if some people think it's a foolish novel.’

‘It is a record galvanised by boxing, funk, politics, black power, hard rock and the white heat of a creative peak in the recording studio that extended from early 1969 to the summer of 1970.’

‘At the time there was a white heat in transport technology.’

‘There is a long history of romance blossoming in the white heat of the Olympic Winter Games.’

‘There would be a white heat of new ideas, invention, fortunes being made and fortunes being lost.’

‘Against the white heat of cricket's Ashes series, some suggest that football has gone cold.’

‘He was his own white heat now, streaking across the pitch-dark eyes of another man, alive in a future he once could only wish for, in a world open to every possibility.’

‘He was also part of a broader nineteenth century romantic era that found Mendelssohn, Schubert, and Brahms's friend Robert Schumann writing at white heat.’

‘Bangkok overloads you with life, with white heat and hassle, with seediness and enterprise, with extortion and ancient beliefs.’

‘Ordinary Americans did make money in the 1990s, though with the boom at white heat, 86 percent of the gains accrued to the top 10 percent.’

‘Love affairs, forged in the white heat of lust, are extinguished just as quickly by a fleeting glance from a beautiful stranger.’

‘Consequently the men in black - and now also a full range of sparkly yellow, red, green and gold - are obliged to enforce the new regimes in the white heat of a World Cup match.’